11.02.2016

Report by J-P.Huhtala (VRC race reporter)

STEAM POWERED race series 1:10 TOURINGCARS

Collegno

After Carpet1 race, it was time to STEAM POWERED race series to travel Collegno, Italy.
This track hosted the IFMAR 1:10 on-road Worlds in 2006 The track well known that its very technical and demanding, just what you can expect from world class track.
Finnish driver Viljami Kutvonen, who wonned that earlier race at Carpet 1, was also at participants list. Also driver from Greece, Bill Lykaris was at the entrylist. This 19years old talent drove very fantastic at WORLDS 2015 in Sydney track. He came to second place in 1:10 nitro on-road spec class, when title went to Netherlands multiple worldchampion Jeffrey Rietveld by 11 seconds.

QUALIFYING

Qualifying showed that nothing had changed and anything miracles didn’t happened when these drivers decided the starting order to final. Bill pace was well known before running, earlier at this track, he had showed his fantastic speed. In qualifying run, Bill took TQ by 0.8 seconds gap to Kutvonen. Kutvonen had one mistake at lap 5, and this gave little 2seconds extra for his result.
Third grid went Frenchman Arthur Brule. Brule pace wasn’t good enough to Lykaris and Kutvonen, his difference was almost five seconds to TQ.

RACE

Like in Heemstede race, atmosphere little pit collapsed when we witnessed some driver losts for the final. Lykaris and Kutvonen, who were those top guys at qualifying, weren’t at the final. So French Arthur Brule got the pole position for the final and Britains Graham Raistrick at second spot.
As the final started, there was three drivers competing first place. Brule, Raistrick and Rensburg drived very intence first 4 laps until Rensburg`s pace dropped and Graham and Arthur escaped from this South African talent. When these two competed very strongly at the front, they drove side by side and seemed that Graham, who was fourth in qualifying, had founded more speed for final. All the way up to 10th lap, they were chasing each other and it looked fantastic.



From that 10th lap, Grahams pace dropped and those last laps weren’t good enough to challenge Brule. At the finishline Brule`s pace was one 10th faster than Graham`s and this was enough. Don’t know what happened to Grahams pace, but something weird it was.



From starting grid three, started South African`s Willem Janse van Rensburg. He drove very consistent race, pace wasn’t fast enough to gain those two at front. He would needed at least one 10th faster laptimes to even challenge Graham. Also to fourth place, what went to Frenchman Xavier Deparde, Rensburg had four seconds distance at finisline. But at the end, Willem drove well deserved podium place.



At SPORT level final, victory went to Phil Isaac from Greece. Once again this driver showed magnificent skills and with his result he would got the fourth place from PRO final. Great driving Phil!
CLUB level final was wonned by Finnish driver Antti Silvennoinen. He had to do full workday because he had a good battle against French Nicolas Chauvet, gap between these two, was only half seconds at finishline.


A main PRO

1|Arthur Brulé|FR|17|05:05.214 2|Graham Raistrick|GB|17|05:07.386 3|Willem Janse van Rensburg|ZA|17 05:09.692 4|Xavier Deparde|FR|17|05:13.690 5|Ralf H. Vey|DE|16|05:02.448 6|Billy Yeung|HK|16 05:07.372 7|Bill Lykaris|GR|DNS 8|Viljami Kutvonen|FI|DNS 9|Michael Lee|US|DNS 10|Stefan Drdlicek|DE|DNS
A main SPORT

1|Phil Isaac|GR|17|05:12.406 2|Thomas Priemer|DE|17|05:16.918 3|György Jávorkai|HU|16|05:04.702 4|Marko Vähäkuopus|FI|16|05:09.754 5|Heikki Huhtala|FI|16|05:16.112 6|Joost Wouters|NL|16|05:16.816 7|Yuriy Meshkov|RU|15|05:01.192 8|Hans Guenther Heitsch|DE|15|05:02.766 9|Huang Junhao|CN|DNS 10|Gerhard Lager|AT|DNS
A main CLUB
1|Antti Silvennoinen|FI|17|05:18.486 2|Chauvet Nicolas|FR|17|05:18.990 3|Sean Krause|DE|16|05:02.880 4|Dieter Dick|AT|16|05:14.206 5|Jürgen Trieb|AT|16|05:17.794 6|Nuno Lourenco|PT|16|05:17.898 7|Iris Lahora|PH|16|05:22.530 8|Robert Hatton|GB|15|05:02.688 9|Laurent Lemaître|CH|DNS 10|Glen Bean|US|DNS

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